Alright brethren, Isaiah 45. Let's read it again. You know
the Lord is speaking here about Cyrus. Cyrus didn't know the
Lord. He used Him to deliver Israel
out of Babylonian captivity. But what's said here about Cyrus
can be said of His people. Let's read it again. Verse 4,
the Lord said, I do this for Jacob, my servant's sake, and
Israel, mine elect. He's doing it for his elect people.
Verse 5, he says, I am the Lord, and there is none else. There
is no God beside me. I girded thee, though thou hast
not known me. God girded Cyrus. He used him
to deliver Israel out of Babylonian captivity, and Cyrus didn't know
the Lord. The whole time God used him,
he never knew the Lord. Here was God's purpose. He said
that they, God's elect Israel, may know from the rising of the
sun and from the west that there is none beside me. I am the Lord
and there is none else. Now there is no God, no Savior,
but the Lord. The triune Jehovah is manifest
in the Lord Jesus. He is the only God there is.
He's the only God there. I am the Lord and there is none
else. There is no God beside me. He
said in verse 6, I am the Lord and there is none else. Now that's
the theme of this whole passage. I said last time this started
up in chapter 44, but it really started in Isaiah 40. And he
said it already several times up to this point. And then look
here in this chapter, verse 18. Thus saith the Lord that created
the heavens, God Himself that formed the earth and made it,
He hath established it, He created it not in vain, He formed it
to be inhabited, I am the Lord, and there is none else. Verse
21, Tell ye, bring them near, yea, let them take counsel together.
Who hath declared this from ancient time? Who hath told it from that
time? Have not I the Lord? There is no God else beside me,
but just God and a Savior. There is none beside me. Look
unto me and be ye saved, all the ends of the earth, for I
am God and there is none else. Girded Cyrus, this man didn't
even know him, used him his whole life and took him and used him
to deliver his children out of Babylonian captivity. And God
said, I did all that just to make my people know that I'm
God and there is none else. My subject is that they may know,
that they may know. God girds those He's chosen,
like He did Cyrus. He girds us, though we didn't
know Him. Though we didn't know Him. And
He does this throughout our life, throughout the life of faith.
There's times He brings you into providence and you don't know.
You just don't know what to do. You don't know. And He girds
you. And He does this that we may
know that He did it, that He's salvation, that there's none
beside Him, that we might know He's the Lord and there is none
else. That's why He does it. See at
verse 5, "...though thou hast not known Me, that they may know."
I'm the Lord and there's none else. You see that? And He didn't
reveal Himself to Cyrus, but He does to His people, but He
does the same thing for His people. We didn't know Him. And yet He
does it the way He does it to make us know, I'm the Lord your
Savior. There is none else. There is
none else. Now, first of all, not one of
God's elect know God by nature. Not one of us knew God. Not one
of us was seeking God. There's only one true and living
God. Just one. Our Savior is the one
true God, the Redeemer, the Lord of Glory, He is the one true
God. Why then do men all over this world think there are so
many gods? Brethren, that's fallen man. Fallen man has created a bunch
of gods and a bunch of religions. The very fact that men think
there are more gods is just an indication that man has fallen.
and doesn't know the one true God. Do you remember in school
when they made you learn about the Greek gods? Remember that? I had professors that thought
they were so wise because they knew all about these Greek gods.
Look over at Acts 17. Look at Acts 17. The one true
God sent Paul to Athens, Greece. And listen to what the Lord said
through Paul. Acts 17, verse 22. Then Paul stood in the midst
of Mars Hill and said, You men of Athens, I perceive that in
all things you are too superstitious. For as I passed by and beheld
your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, To the
unknown God. They had an altar to the unknown
God just in case they missed one. Paul said, Whom therefore
you ignorantly worship, That's the one I'm declaring to you.
The one you don't know, the true God, that's the one I'm preaching
to you. Why are there so many religions
and then why are there so many sects? parties and denominations
within these religions. It's not enough that there are
just all these different gods that men are worshiping in their
various religions, but within each one, there's two or three
different or more denominations or sects within those religions. Why that? The Lord said in 1 Corinthians
11, 19, He said, There must be also heresies among you. that they which are approved
may be manifest among you. That word heresies means choices,
choices. And while day and sins, men have
no understanding of the one true God, none whatsoever. And man
has many different notions and many different opinions thinking
there's many different gods. So long as men have choices,
that's why sects are formed, that's why different religions
are formed and different denominations within them. It's because dissensions
arise between men, diversity of opinions, diversity of aims
and ends, and they split off and they start their new denomination. But so long as men have choices,
Their choices are always between false gods and false gods. That's it. Look over at Joshua
24. Joshua 24. While these men have
choices, their choices are between the false and the false. That's
it. Now this is the Lord speaking here, and everybody quotes this
inaccurately. If you look back at verse 2,
Joshua said unto all the people, Thus saith the Lord God of Israel. And it never stops being the
Lord God's Word, Him speaking all the way through this passage.
It's Christ speaking. He's the head of the house. He's
our Joshua, Savior, the head of His house. And this is not
Joshua saying it. This is Joshua preaching the
Word of the Lord. And he gets down to verse 15. And he says to them, If it seem
evil unto you to serve the Lord, choose you. You've got a choice. Here's your choices. Choose you
this day whom you will serve. whether the gods which your fathers
served that were on the other side of the flood, they were
false gods, or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you dwell,
they're false gods too. There's your choices, the false
and the false. But Christ removes our choices.
And it's still thus saith the Lord God speaking, and Christ
says, but as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord. Christ
served God in the place of His people, as the head of His people,
and He did so perfectly, and His people have done so perfectly
in Him, and by His Spirit, He brings us to have no other choice. We serve the Lord God. We want
no other choice. He makes us willing in a day
of His power. You remember when you considered
all the different gods there were in the world? I remember
that. I remember thinking, well, they can't all be wrong. Oh yeah,
they can. They are. They're all wrong. God has brought you the gospel
and taught you the one true God who saves. Do you know what a
blessing that is? That great host saw Christ feed
the multitude. And so of themselves, they saw
Him feed this multitude and they thought, well, we need to follow
Him. And so of themselves, they followed Him across that sea
to the other side. Look over at John 6. And they
get over there and they found Him. All this is just them of
themselves. And they get over there, and
because they saw Him themselves, this was their first question
to Him. Verse 28, What shall we do that we might work the
works of God? that they did it themselves,
they followed Him themselves, they made themselves His disciples
themselves, so this is their question. Now what must we do
to work the works of God? Jesus said to them, this is the
work of God, that you believe on Him whom He hath sent. Wouldn't
it be amazing that the Spirit of God would
teach us That right there is just what it means. It's just
what it said. That's the work of God, to believe
on His Son. Believe on His Son. But they
didn't have God-given faith, so what did they ask for? They
said, well, give us some evidence. Give us a sign. Give us some
proof. They said, verse 30, they said, Therefore unto Him, what
sign showest thou then that we may see and believe thee? What
dost thou work? They just saw Him feed a multitude, created the food out of just
two fish and a few loaves. And here they are saying, you
are going to have to give us some evidence that you are who
you say you are. The Jews seek after a sign. What
does that mean? Lost, spiritually, dead, religious
folks that don't have the Spirit, that can't hear the Spirit speaking
in their heart, has to have something they can see with these eyes.
And that's what we're dealing with right here. The fallen man
says, substantiate what you're telling me. Give me some substantial
proof. Faith is the substance of things
hoped for. When you have faith, you believe
God. Man says, well, give me some
evidence, give me a sign. Faith is the evidence of things
the natural eye cannot see. The Lord declared the gospel
to them. He said there, Jesus said to them, Verily, verily,
I say unto you, Moses gave you not that bread from heaven, but
my Father gave you the bread from heaven. For the bread of
God is he which cometh down from heaven and giveth life to the
world. You know what he's telling them? He's telling them, I am
the Lord, there is none else. I'm a just God and a Savior,
and there is no Savior beside me. That's what he's telling
them. But because they're spiritually dead, they thought, what are
they thinking? They thought he meant earthly
bread. And they said, well, give us this earthly bread. We won't
ever have to work again. We'll have free food the rest
of our days. Carnal. That's all they're thinking is
carnal, carnal, carnal, because they don't have the Spirit. He
declared plainly in verse 35, I am the bread of life. Again,
he said, I'm the only God, I'm the only Savior, I'm life. And without faith, being blind
and dead in sin, they murmured at him because he said, I'm the
bread which came down from heaven. They said, we know his daddy
Joseph, we know his mother. What's he mean, he came down
from heaven? They didn't believe him, did
they? Lord spake in parables to lost men. And that's how the
gospel comes to lost men. Men will hear the gospel preached.
You remember hearing the gospel preached and you couldn't understand
what was being said? You sit there and hear it, and
the Lord blesses you and your heart, and you understand everything
that's being said. Somebody sit right next to you and hear the
same message and have no understanding whatsoever of what's being said.
That's how it was right here, John 6, verse 51. The second
part there, he said, The bread that I'll give is my flesh, which
I'll give for the life of the world. And they didn't have a
clue what that meant. Verse 52, The Jews strove among
themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat?
You know what they're thinking? He's talking about cannibalism. Jesus said to them, verily, verily,
did he tone it down for them? He said, except you eat the flesh
of the Son of God and drink His blood, you have no life in you.
That's how men hear the gospel. It's just that absurd to them
because all they can think is carnal things. Show me a carnal
sign. Give me some physical evidence
I can see. And so they said, it's a hard
saying, who can hear it? They were offended, they went
away, and they walked with him no more. You know why? They made the choice
to follow him. They made the choice to leave
him. And he didn't. He left them to their choice. They were like the Jews who sought
after righteousness but found it not. Why? Because they were
seeking it by the works of the law and not by faith. Christ
said, if you were blind, if you would say, I'm blind, I'm a sinner,
I'm helpless, I can't do anything to save myself, you wouldn't
have any sin. But He said, now you say you
seek, you say you can help yourself, your sin remains. That's a man's
choice. That's a man looking to his choice.
Man by nature doesn't know God. He can't go to himself spiritually.
He's dead in sins. And that was the case with every
one of God's elect as we come into this world, me and you. John 6.67, Then Jesus said to
the twelve, Will you go away also? Simon Peter said, Lord, we don't
have a choice. To whom shall we go? Thou hast the words of eternal
life. And we believe. We've got all
the evidence we need. We have the substance. We believe
and are sure thou art that Christ, the Son of the living God. Now,
who made the difference? Who made the difference here?
Well, this is my second point. It's only by the Lord guarding
us when we didn't know Him. making us know. We didn't know
Him. And He girded us. That's how we know. And that's
how we believe the one true God, the Lord Jesus Christ, our Savior. That's how we know. That's why
He saves this way. Back there in the text, He said,
He said, verse 5, I girded thee, though thou hast not known Me.
Now, me and you, every one of us that believe can say that.
He girded us and we didn't know Him when He did it. Why did He
do it? That they may know from the rising
of the sun and from the west, so that all His people, wherever
they are in this world, will know there is none beside Me. I am the Lord and there is none
else. The word girded means to hold close. It means to clasp. It means to take hold of and
not let go. God laid hold of His people. We don't lay hold of God. We
do after He lays hold of us, but it's not our grip laying
hold of Him. But He laid hold of us first,
even when we didn't know Him. Even when we didn't know Him.
Look over at Isaiah 65 and look here at verse 6. I know this
is said of the Gentiles, but God uses Gentiles to show us
how He saves everybody. Isaiah 65, verse 1, God says,
I am salt, now get this play on words, I'm salt of them that
ask not for me. In other words, I'm salt of them
that did not seek me. I'm found of them that sought
me not. I said, behold me, behold me,
unto a nation that was not called by my name. hundreds of years before God
girded Cyrus, though Cyrus didn't know him, God girded him. God raised him up and his purpose,
he planned it, he purposed it. Well, that's what God did for
His people in eternity. He guarded us when He chose us
and blessed us with all spiritual blessings in Christ. He took
hold of us, He clasped hold of us, and He would not let us go
in Christ from eternity. That's what He did. Christ guarded
us when He worked out a perfect righteousness for His people.
Why did God lift up this man Cyrus? And he is such a picture
of Christ because he is from a distant land. Christ is from
heaven. He comes as a mighty king. Christ
is the King of kings and Lord of lords. And He comes into Babylon. to an enemy far too great for
His people. And Christ came to Satan and
crushed his head. He came to us dead in our sins,
our sin nature too great for us to deliver ourselves. And
Christ came and He delivered us from the curse and condemnation
of the law. That was an enemy too great for
us. Everything about us is a picture
of our Lord Jesus Christ. And when did Christ do this for
us? when we didn't know Him. For
when we were yet without strength, in due time Christ died for the
ungodly. For scarcely for a righteous
man will one die. Men might lay down their life
for a righteous man, a good man. Yeah, Pert Vincent, for a good
man some would dare to die. He's not quite as good as the
righteous man, but he's a pretty good fellow. Some might even
die for him. That's not how God operates. God didn't look at
you and say, well, you're righteous, so I'll lay down my life for
you. You're pretty good, I'll lay down my life for you. Nope.
He said, God commendeth his love toward us in that while we were
yet sinners, Christ died for us. It don't have a thing to
do with me and you. We didn't know him. I girded
you, though you didn't even know me. I laid down my life, made
you righteous when you didn't even know me. And then He came
to us dead in our sin, sent the gospel to us dead in our sin,
and we didn't know Him. And fact is, when we came into
this world, the whole time we went through our life not knowing
Him, and you just think of all the craziness you did and things
that you went through, who was guarding you that whole time?
The Lord was, and you didn't even know Him. Look at Hosea chapter 2. Hosea
is a picture of me and you, all God's elect. I mean, Gomer. Hosea 2 verse 8. Look at Gomer. Gomer played the harlot. And
that's a picture of us, and it's a picture of how the Lord provided
for His elect the whole time when we didn't even know Him.
Look here, Hosea 2 verse 8. She didn't know I gave her the
corn, and the wine, and the oil, and multiplied her silver and
gold, which she offered to Baal. See there, the Lord was providing
the whole time. That's what He was doing for
me and you. Therefore will I return, and I'll take away my corn in
the time thereof, and my wine in the season thereof, and recover
my wool and my flax given to cover her nakedness. And now
will I discover her lewdness in the sight of her lovers. and
none shall deliver her out of my hand." We didn't know Him
when He did this for us. He took it away from us. I'll
cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons,
her Sabbath, all her solemn feasts, all the self-made religion we
chose and we were rejoicing in. He said, I'm going to make that
joy cease. It's going to get better to you. And he said, I'll
destroy her vines and her fig trees where she said these are
my rewards that my lovers have given me. I will make them a
forest and a beast of the field shall eat them. And I'll visit
upon her the days of Balaam wherein she burned incense to them and
decked herself with her earrings and her jewels and went after
her lovers and forgot me, saith the Lord. In other words, I'm
going to make all her vain religion and everything she trusts in
to be misery to her. Therefore, behold, I will allure
her and bring her into the wilderness and speak comfortably to her.
I'm going to strip her and then I'm going to teach her the gospel.
That's what God did. She didn't know Him. He said,
She didn't know. I gave her everything. That was
me and you, brethren. That's what God did for us when
He sent the gospel to us and quickened us and made us to know
Him. We didn't know Him. We were not seeking Him. No man
is seeking God first. God seeks His people first. There's
none that understandeth, there's none that seeketh after God.
Somebody would say, well, I remember searching the scriptures. If
you did it in spirit and in truth, really looking for God, it was
only because God brought you there and made you do it. Well,
I remember going and wanting to go and hear the gospel. It
was only because God drew you there. He sought you first, when
you didn't know Him. I'm found of them that sought
Me not, He said. Christ told those people in John
6, He said, No man can come to Me except the Father which has
sent Me drawing. He said, No man can come to Me
except it were given him of My Father. He said, It's written
in the prophets, They shall be all taught of God. He's not talking
about everybody. He didn't teach those folks.
They had a choice. They left. He's talking about
His people. They shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath
heard and that hath learned of the Father, every one of them
do the same thing. He said, they come to Me. They
come to Me. I go to thee though thou hast
not known Me that you may know that I'm the God and there's
none else. And God keeps doing this for
us, brethren. I'm telling you now, listen.
throughout your life of faith. Gomer is a picture, really and
truly, she's a picture of a believer who turned from Christ to her
former lovers. That's what she is. Because she
had been brought to Hosea, she'd been married to Hosea, she bore
some fruit to Hosea, then she went back to her lovers. So she's
a picture of a believer, sanctified, holy, righteous in the Lord,
who turns from Christ to the wilderness. There were some people
in Israel that the Lord had to... We saw that before this passage.
The Lord said, you didn't bring me any sweet cane with money.
You've run after your idols. And so that's why the Lord turned
them over to Babylonian captivity was to correct them. Our Lord
keeps doing this for us, brethren. He keeps doing this for His people.
That was the whole picture with Gomer. It was a picture of the
sovereign love of God toward the children of Israel who look
to other gods and love flagons of wine. That was the whole picture. Our text, the Lord speaking of
some who were sanctified believing children in Israel. He's doing
this for them. Why did God quicken us and leave
us in this body of death? Why did He give us the Gospel
and why does He send us Providence sometime where we don't know
what to do and can't do anything to get out of it? Why does He
do that? Do you remember why the Lord did what He did with
Joseph? You just think about Joseph. The Lord, his brothers
just flat out had nothing but envy for Joseph because their
father loved him. And so they sold him into slavery
and lied to their father and told their father he was eaten
by a wild beast. And Joseph is taken down there
into Egypt and he gets to Egypt and he's made the ruler in Potiphar's
house. But Potiphar's wife wants him
on her terms. That's a vain, false, will-worshipping
sinner who's looking to his choice. She said, come lay with me. She
wanted him on her terms. He said, I can't lay with you.
There's a law against it. Christ couldn't have anything
to do with me and you. There was a law against it. He
had to redeem us from that law before he could make us his bride.
And because she wouldn't submit to her, In her choice, she accused him
of taking advantage of her and they threw him in prison. This
is a child of God going through this. Joseph's in prison. Some men need him to interpret
a dream and he interprets a dream for them. And he said, all I
ask is when you get out of here, remember me to Pharaoh. They
forgot him. And finally, Pharaoh needs a
dream interpreted and they said, we remember a man that knows,
can interpret a dream. He's down there in prison. We
forgot about him. And they went down there and
got him. And he interpreted the dream and God moved Pharaoh's
heart and Pharaoh made him second in command over Egypt. What had happened? God guarded
Joseph. Joseph didn't know what was going
on through all of that. Why'd God do it that way? To
show him, I'm the Lord. And then he sent a famine to
his brothers. And they go down to Egypt because
they need bread and they go to the very one that they forsook
and hated and despised and rejected. Isn't that a picture of Christ?
And he revealed himself and said, I'm your brother. And he opened
the storehouses and fed them and provided for them. Why does
God work that way? Joseph said, you meant it for
evil. God meant it for good. The Lord said, I girded you that
you might know I'm the Lord. You take Gideon's army. Gideon had this big old army.
God said, I'm going to use you to go down here and fight a battle.
He said, but you're going to have to willow that army down
first. And the Lord said, he willowed it down. He said, that's
still too many. And he said, when these men come up to drink,
he said, whoever laps like a dog, he said, set them apart. Some
didn't. Some just bent down and drank.
or used their hand or whatever. Well, how can you tell who's
who from that? You couldn't. That's the purpose.
It's God who puts the difference between His people. He don't
tell me and you who the difference is. He makes the difference.
And then God told them, now you separate them and they're going.
And it was about 300 people and they were going against this
mighty army. Why? Why did God do it that way? He
girded them so that they would know He's the Lord. He's the Savior. He's the one
doing the work. Why does God put you in these
positions where you don't know what to do, and the providence
is hard, and you don't know what to do, and then God provides
for you and brings you through it in a way that you'd have never
imagined He'd do it? Why'd He do it that way? I girded
you, though, that you didn't know, that you might know, I'm
God and there's none else. Do you pray for God to grow you
in knowledge of Him, and understanding of Him, and faith, and love,
and all the fruit of the Spirit? This is how He's going to do
it. He's going to make you know, I'm the Lord. I'm doing the saving. I'm doing the saving. Whenever
Peter and them apostles They were given faith. They said,
we believe, we are sure you are the Christ, the Son of the living
God. Well, Peter was taught this a little more, wasn't he? Whenever
he said, oh Lord, I won't deny you now. I won't. Peter didn't
know, did he? He didn't know. And he denied
Him. And the Lord came and guarded
him. The Lord came and recovered him. And he made him know, I'm
the Lord, I'm your Savior, Peter. What did Peter say then? He said,
do you love me, Peter? Peter said, Lord, you know, you
know everything. You know everything. You see that growth? Now lastly,
when God saves this way, that's when we know He is our only God
and our only Savior. That's why He saves this way.
Verse 1, I girded thee, though thou hast not known me, that
they may know that there is none beside me. I am the Lord, and
there is none else. He makes us know, I girded you.
And God's children know this. You know why? Remember we saw
in Isaiah 8 and 9, remember what he said? He said, you gird yourselves
and you'll be broken in pieces. And he said it again, you gird
yourselves, you'll be broken in pieces. You know why I think
he said it twice? There's two things you need more
than anything. You need justification, you need sanctification. You
try to gird yourself in either one, he gonna break you to pieces.
He'll break you to pieces. We can't gird ourselves apart
from God. Everything that you do that's
good, if you do something that's good, it's just the effect of
what Christ worked in you. It's not you doing it on your
own. But when the Spirit commands us, and you know, this is the
thought that came to me when I was thinking about this. Somebody
would say, yeah, but the Spirit, Paul said, gird up the loins
of your mind. You know when you're going to
gird up the loins of your mind? He is going to use a preacher just
like he used Paul to say to you, gird up the loins of your mind,
you know when you are going to do it. The Lord sent Ezekiel
and he said, go to these dead, dry bones who say, we are dead,
we can't live. That is what Israel was saying,
it is all over for us, we have no hope, we can't revive ourselves,
we are in captivity, it is no use. The Lord told Ezekiel, you
go to these dry bones and you tell them to live. Strange thing, huh? He said,
but as you do it, you ask me to send the Spirit. And the Lord
said, so Ezekiel said, I preached, I told them to live. I prayed
and the Spirit came into them. And God said, when I've done
it, you're going to glorify me. God's going to send a preacher
to you and he's going to say, gird up the loins of your mind, be
strong, trust the Lord when you're going to do it. When the Spirit
of God comes into your heart and girds up your loins. God
said, I girded you that you might know that I did it. You didn't
do it. As long as a man boasts that
he did it, he don't know God. He's doing what them fellows
in John 6 did. He made himself a disciple. You know, they're
called disciples in John 6. Why? They come and listen to
his teaching. But they left it. They had a
choice. When He speaks, it says, "...gird
up the loins of your mind." Verse 22, here's what He said, Isaiah
45, look at verse 22. Here's what He speaks into your
heart when He says, "...gird up the loins of your mind." He
speaks this into your heart, "...look unto Me, and be ye saved."
That's passive as it can be. That's saying, look to Me, and be ye saved. I'll do the
saving, you just be saved. That's what he's saying. Look
to me, quit looking to yourself, and be you saved wherever you
are in the earth, for I'm God and there's no one else. That's
what girding up the law and seal your mind is. That's what you'll
do when he girds you, the law and seal your mind, through the
preaching of the word. He must gird His elect. He must
robe us in His righteousness. He must gird us within. He must
be the only one who girds us and teaches us so that we know
there's none beside Him. He's the Lord. He's the Savior.
There's none else. What did He tell Peter? He said,
Blessed art thou, Simon Bargera, for flesh and blood has not revealed
it unto you, but my Father which is in heaven. He told that multitude. He said,
ìIt is the Spirit that quickeneth the flesh, profits nothing.î
He said, ìThe words I speak to you, they are spirit and they
are life.î But listen, just because they heard Him with these ears,
it didnít do Him no good. He said, ìBut there are some
of you that believe not.î He said that right after He said,
ìThe words I speak are spirit and life. Your flesh is not profiting.î
He said, ìBut there are some of you that believe not.î Because
He knew who they were. And he said, and that's why I said to
you, no man can come to me except it were given him of my father.
You know what, he's sitting there telling them plainly, he's telling
them, you're not mine, my father hadn't drawn you, and I haven't
spoken my word affectionately into your heart. And they never
ever even heard what He said. The next word they say is, how
can He give us His flesh? They are just disputing with
one another and debating with one another. How are we going to
eat His flesh? Because He didn't speak this
word into their heart. But when He does, and He keeps
doing it from the first hour to the last, He makes you know
He did it. This is what he said, and you'll
be satisfied. You'll be like the apostles were.
Listen, Psalm 65, verse 4, Blessed is the man whom thou choosest,
and causes to approach unto thee, that he may dwell in your house. We shall be satisfied with the
goodness of thy house, even of thy holy temple. He ain't talking
about a building. He's talking about with Christ
and his gospel. That's what he's talking about.
We'll be satisfied. We ain't looking for nothing
else. We don't have another choice. We don't want another choice.
We found the pearl of great price. And he made you know, I did it.
I revealed it to you. and disputing and choices are
over when God gives his child faith to believe God. We come
into trials and we think ourselves wise and prudent and we look
to our way and we try to get ourselves out of it and that
ends When God girds us by His power and His Spirit and turns
us to Christ, we stop trying to save ourselves as believers,
even out of the trial. We just submit it to Him. And
that's when you have peace. That's when you know He's got
it. He's doing this and He'll bring you through it. Faith is
the rock-solid foundation It's the substance, the rock solid
foundation, because faith is resting on Christ the solid rock. That's it. Thou hast saved us from our enemies. That's the cry of faith. Thou
hast saved us from our enemies. God said, I'm the Lord, there's
none else. There's no God beside me. I girded you, though you
didn't know me. that you might know I'm the Lord
and there is none else. And you know what faith says?
Amen. Amen. I'm satisfied that he's
doing it all. Satisfied. Let's observe the
Lord's table. Brother Adam,